The theme for MassCUE’s recently held 2015 summer workshop for STEM and tech educators was ‘Better Together—Working with Your Librarian and ITS to Design Great Projects.’ After all, education isn’t any different; plenty of truly innovative and revolutionary results often stem from collaboration among groups of students using technology in the classroom.
Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to overcome lack of creativity in education and if you’d care to learn how, keep reading! Some of the factors that scientifically compose creativity include originality, self-expression, risk taking and collaboration—none of which I see in traditional lecture-giving and note-taking classrooms.
Staff Writer Eli Kell-Abrams sheds light on the world of video production.”Oh the times, they are a-changin’.” It was as true in 1964, when Bob Dylan first said it, as it is now. It’s a new day, a day filled with screens, technology, and flashing lights. A day where famous books are now being overshadowed by the motion pictures made about them.
We are taking this app around the track to find out what’s under the hood! We’ll tell you if it’s worth your time, if what we find is any good. Unleash your creativity with Craftsy! Find out how to bring ideas to life and create projects that make you proud. Craftsy has more than 500 online classes in photography, cake decorating, cooking, and painting.
DJ-ing is very important to music technology because it is one of the most popular ways of getting different types of music and audio technology to places everyone can see. DJ-ing is different from other sound production in the sense that it is more of putting all the pieces of the puzzle together rather than just engineering one specific piece.
The makers of Toontastic is excited to introduce TeleStory, the second app in their “Creative Suite for Kids”. Like Toontastic, TeleStory empowers kids and kids at heart to create and share stories with friends and family around the world. From music videos to epic space battles and thrilling car chases, you’ll have a blast making your own TV shows.
Is your child feeling delighted, astonished or anxious? “Feel Electric!” explores all those emotions and more. As part of the Military Families “Find the Right Word” initiative, this app offers engaging tools that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression.
Halloween is just around the corner, and for the Eduporium team, that means it’s time to set out and find the perfect pumpkin. We wanted one that is big and scary: a pumpkin so frightening that it makes grown men whimper. We also wanted a pumpkin that is educational, fun, and safe for children, because that’s what Eduporium is all about.
My first foray into 3D modeling and animation was this past weekend and, by no means do I consider myself an expert on the subject. What I can do is tell you what I have found so far, and promise you all that this journey, in fact, will continue and I will happily post the various good tutorials and any reference materials I find for the tools I am about to describe in this post.
